Word: tact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact and disarming Scottish directness, as the mainspring of his jack-in-the-box bounce to Viceroyalty...
...Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing and her inability to speak the language. Beginning by amusing her super-aristocratic lover she soon dominated him, beat him occasionally and was generally suspected of strangling him to death. In her peaceful old age she retired to enjoy her riches and the protection of the king...
...master stroke of Empire tact, His Majesty's Government last week gave Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough...
...gone back to his native Virginia to become a well-to-do squire and breeder of race horses. The reason he rode with the President-elect on that occasion was that Franklin Roosevelt knew of no one else who could manage his inaugural with better social grace and tact...
...present, it is sufficient to say that the Juniors showed a deplorable lack of tact in failing to notify the Student Council of their action and in presenting it without consultation to the outside world in such an unfavorable light. Consciously or unconsciously, they have placed two leading members of the Senior Class in a position where they both must receive unpleasant criticism. One thing already stands out clearly; the election does not involve personalities or friction, only bad management...